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1.00 Credits
Examines the historical processes of state formation in the West and elsewhere. Explores reactions from societies, which took the forms of social movements--from peasant rebellions to social revolutions. 1 unit - Ito.
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1.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary analysis of environmental policy formulation and regulation at the international level. Examines the negative impact of human activity upon complex ecosystems and the 'global commons,' and analyses the efficacy of international regimes, such as the Kyoto Protocol. Debates the linkages between environmental change, prosperity, and conceptualizations of security. 1 unit - Price-Smith.
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1.00 Credits
Focuses on the global dimensions of environmental change, resource scarcity, and their interactions with human health within the domain of political science. Examines the utility of orthodox "national security" paradigms versus emerging conceptualizations of "human security." 1 unit - Price-Smith.
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9.00 - 25.00 Credits
A year-long lecture series covering a wide variety of contemporary political issues and disputes. (Not offered 2008-09.) .25 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Reading of major essays from 1950 to the present of such thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Hayek, Pierre Manent, Michael Oakeshott, John Rawls, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. 1 unit - Fuller.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of classic and modern conceptions of political economy. Emphasis on understanding theory and applying it to explain political and economic outcomes within states and among states in the international arena. Open to declared junior International Political Economy majors, and to others with consent of instructor. Prerequisite: Economics 250 (151 or 153) and Political Science 201. (Also listed as Economics 375.) 1 unit - Breger, Gould.
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3.00 Credits
Examines (1) the political and social dynamics and interpretive methods that shape the constitutional decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court, and (2) the political impact of the Court's constitutional decisions and doctrines on political and social conditions. Emphasis given to the shift from judicial concern with governmental structures and powers to the contemporary concern with individual and group rights. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor or Political Science 200. 1 unit - Carter.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes the intellectual precursors and historical development of the federal union of 1787 and of early American foreign policy. Considers America before the Civil War as a system of states and explores through debates over the American union and early foreign policy a range of theoretical issues in international relations. Prerequisite: Also listed as History 240. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the rise of the United States to world power in the 20th century and its role in the contemporary international system. 1 unit - Hendrickson.
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1.00 Credits
Examines the philosophical significance and historical development of thought concerning the relations of states and peoples from the Renaissance to the American and French Revolutions, with attention to thinkers such as Erasmus, Machiavelli, Las Casas, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Bolingbroke, Hume, Smith, Burke, Rousseau, Constant, Gentz, Kant, and the American Founding Fathers. 1 unit - Hendrickson.
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